Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2000, 4:34 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2000, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2000, 5:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 109 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMFL 152041 SVRMIA FLC011-025-152135- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 434 PM EDT MON MAY 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA. * UNTIL 535 PM EDT * AT 330 PM EDT A CLUST OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN BROWARD AND WESTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTIES WAS MOVING EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH ARE WEST OF HIGHWAY 27 WILL BE MOVING INTO THE METRO AREAS OF BOTH COUNTIES BEFORE 530 PM EDT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS. BE ALERT FOR THESE STRONG DANGEROUS STORMS. JUNO BEACH PALM BEACH GARDENS RIVIERA BEACH WEST PALM BEACH PALM BEACH LAKE WORTH THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIAMI. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR $SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 2691 7999 2682 8016 2659 8012 2664 7991
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 30 min |
| May 15, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 33 min |
| May 15, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 32 min |
| May 15, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades | 58 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.